“Kitchen Cleanup” for Osteoporosis: Medication, Sugars, Processed Foods

welcome to my kitchen everyone in today's video we're going to talk about medications processed foods and hidden sugars and how they affect your osteoporosis hey everyone welcome to the channel Ed Deo physical therapist from integrated physical therapy in rainy Bellingham Washington today so when I see a client with osteoprosis through the clinic one of the things that I get them to do is do a kitchen cleanout and the first stop the kitchen cleanout is the medicine cabinet it's not uncommon for some of my senior clients to be on multiple prescription medications sometimes five six seven plus medications as a health industry we do a great job of prescribing medications but we don't do a great job of describing medications and often times my clients will tell me that they have multiple medications for multiple different doctors doctors the issue is sometimes the side effects from five or more medications is dizziness and an increased risk of falling which of course for osteoporosis is the very last thing we want to happen so this is what I recommend that you do is make a list of all the medications that you have from all your different providers and then go into your primary care doctor and ask them look do I still need to be taking all of these medications at this particular dosage I'm definitely not telling you to stop your medication but what I am telling you to do is let's do a prescription medication audit to find out if you really do still need some of the medication that you're on the next thing we're going to talk about our other medications that we're on for sometimes completely different conditions but they could be affecting the body's ability to absorb micronutrients which in turn can affect bone mineral density so for example if someone is on a long-term use of cortical steroids like prazone or someone has asthma and they're on a long-term inhaler we have to be careful because sometimes those medications interfere with the body's ability to absorb calcium so on one hand you're getting all your calcium in through your food you're taking maybe a supplement but you're not absorbing those micronutrients another common over-the-counter medication is heartburn medication often times those are called ppis protein pump inhibitors they also can affect your body's ability to absorb calcium so you really want to make sure that you really do need those once again talk to your doctor if there's something else that you can take instead also if you have an autoimmune condition I have many clients that are on Synthroid and make sure the Synthroid is well monitored because once again that can impact your body's ability to absorb micronutrients and in turn make and develop new bone now let's talk about food sure of course the best thing is to eat whole foods that don't have a labels don't come in a box but often times that's not reality especially with busy lives as you probably know processed food has been linked to all sorts of diseases not just osteoporosis increased risk of cancer dementia cardiovascular disease the list goes on and on so we really want to try to minimize processed foods but remember processed foods are on a Continuum we can have minimally processed foods which is make our life more convenient and then of course we have the ultra processed foods that we really want to try to avoid like these pistachio nuts for example they're processed but minimally processed they're shelled that have a little bit of salt in them so if you're going to have processed foods you want to be on the minimally processed side of it you don't have time to to soak your beans overnight the can of black beans just has water and salt so once again minimally processed but not too bad for us at the other end of the Continuum we have the ultra processed foods crackers and of course the Friday night special frozen pizza you can't get much more processed than this now no one is saying to completely avoid processed foods but the idea is to put some bumpers on it and to minimize that so what I tell my clients is really try to minimize food that comes out a box is frozen and has a jingle a mascot the last stop in our kitchen cleanout is hidden sugar now I love cookies straight up I love cookies so if I'm going to have something that's sugary and it's going to be a treat then I'm going to make sure that it's something really good these aren't the kind of sugars that I'm talking about of course we want to try to limit the overall amount of sugar we get average American gets like 13 to 17 teaspoons of sugar every single day and through a Cascade of effects sugar increases inflammation chances of diabetes all sorts of things we don't want so really put some bumpers on the overall sugar and the sweets that we have the hidden sugars are what we need to get rid of in our diet because those are the sneaky sugars the food company's put in there just to get us to eat more of it places for sneaky sugar pasta sauce salad dressings we don't need them to be sweet check your peanut butter label often times they'll throw some sugar in there too so here's your homework first of all medication list talk to your doctor make sure that you need all those medications second thing is look at everything you're taking over the counter just to make sure that it's not interfering with your body's ability to absorb micronutrients number three look for hidden sugars in your house and get rid of all food that has the hidden sugars the great thing is is that you can get bread with less sugar ketchup with less sugar salad dressing with less sugar we don't need those hidden sugars when you do go for something sweet just put some bumpers on it and lastly take a look at the ultr processed foods and really try to minimize the frozen pizzas the cereals remember anything that comes out of a box has a mascot or a jingle has got to go all right guys thank you for watching please let me know if you have any questions make sure you hit 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